Word: fume
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...Davis called the labs "behind the times." In the matter of students' health, this pronouncement raises worrisome issues. Organic chemistry labs often feature a wide variety of toxic and carcinogenic materials; improvements cannot come soon enough. Fortunately, the renovations will augment safety measures with the addition of new fume hoods...
...student was working with a gram of copper cyanide in a fume hood," a safety device where a sheet of glass is used to contain possibly dangerous fumes emitting from experiments, Bochnak said yesterday. "It apparently overheated and the student was flashed with the copper cyanide...
...meeting was a tacit admission that Clinton's formidable ability to win friends and influence people has fallen flat with the military. Since late January, when Clinton announced his interim policy for lifting the military's ban on homosexuals, matters have been difficult. Mid-level officers and enlisted personnel fume about the Clinton Administration's proposed diet of pay freezes and troop reductions. The top brass grumbles about a lack of respect, noting that no generals or admirals sit on the National Security Council and only two of 45 political positions at the Pentagon have been confirmed. "There...
...Soviet military-security apparatus tried to use ominously rumbling, fume-belching columns of tanks and APCs to bring Moscow to submission, but proved no more potent than the Wizard of Oz. The communist system by last week had reached such an advanced state of debility that the brain was no longer capable of sending commands to the limbs. What most Soviets will remember about "Acting President" Gennadi Yanayev is his trembling hands as he tried to explain himself on television...
Those who believe dictionaries should not merely reflect the times but also protect English from the mindless assaults of the trendy will find that the Random House Webster's lends authority to scores of questionable usages, many of them tinged with "politically correct" views. Purists will fume, but what is worse is that such permissiveness can only invite a further tattering of the language -- and already...